The State of Delaware adopted the Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act which will give personal representatives, custodians and trustees access to the digital accounts of a deceased person. The Act, which comes into effect on January 1, 2015, aims to reduce existing hurdles which surviving family members and attorneys face in disposing with the deceased person’s digital assets.

Silk Road Founder Loses Argument That the FBI Illegally Hacked Servers to Find Evidence against Him

By Travis West — Edited by Mengyi Wang

The alleged Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was denied the motion to suppress evidence in his case. Ulbricht argued that the FBI illegally hacked the Silk Road servers to search for evidence to use in search warrants for the server. The judge denied the motion because Ulbricht failed to establish he had any privacy interest in the server.